Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident

  • > The video in the file was not infected, but the downloader of the file could not be analyzed by investigators because it was encrypted by WhatsApp.[16]

    Can anyone translate that back to tech for us? What exactly is being called a "downloader" here?

  • What a labyrinthian Wikipedia article. Surely they could have written it more clearly, and in plain English.

  • > claimed that in May 2018 with "medium to high confidence" the phone of Jeff Bezos had been hacked by a file sent from the WhatsApp account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.

    Is someone has claimed this to be I would said - that's silly MbS knows better than to conduct business over WhatsApp, and JB knows better than to open files sent to him.

    I mean, can you imagine a movie where this is the plot?